BOOKS
Primate Netiroethology, edired by M. Platt and A. Ghazanfar. 2010. Oxford University Press. 688pp. ISBN: 978– 0195326598. This book collects information on primate behavior and cognition, neurobiology, and the emerging discipline of neuroetbology. Here leading scientists review work ranging from primate foraging behavior to the neurophysiology of motor control, from vocal communication to the functions of the auditory cortex. The resulting synthesis yields a richer understanding of primates that also sheds light on die evolutionary development of human behavior and cognition. Contents: 1. Introduction — M. Platt and A. Ghazanfar; 2. Primate classification and diversity — M, Cartmill; 3. — Primate locomotor evolution — D. Schmitt; 4. Foraging cognition in nonhuman primates — K. Zuberbühler & K. Janmaat; 5. Primate vocal communication — R. Scyfarth & D. Cheney; 6. Rational decision making in primates — J. Stevens; 7. Primate social cognition — A. Rosati, L. Santos & B. Hare; 8. Behavioral signatures of numerical condition — E. Bramion, K. Jordan & S. Jones; 9. The foundations of transdisciplinary behavioral science — H. Gintis; 10. Sensory and motor systems in primates — ]. Kaas; 11, Vision — B. Hayden; 12. Circuits of visual attention – T. Moore, R. Schafer & B. Noudoost; 13. Vocalizations as auditory objects — C. Miller &. Y. Cohen; 14, Encoding and beyond in the motor cortex — N. Hatsopoulos, M. Salch & J. Mattiello; 15. Looking at sounds — J. Groh & D. Pai; 16. Circuits of emotion in the primate brain — K. Gothard & K, Hoffman; 17. Neurophysiological correlates of reward learning — W. Schultz; 18. Associate memory in the medial temporal lobe — Y. Naya & W. Suzuki; 19. Neurobiology of social behavior — D. Maestripieri; 20. Neural bases of numerical cognition — A. Nieder; 21. Executive control circuits — J. Wallis; 22. Reinventing primate neuroscience for the twenty-first century — T. Preuss; 23. Ethologically relevant movements mapped on the motor cortex — M. Graziano; 24. Object recognition — D. Tsao, C. Cadieu & M. Livingstone; 25. The primate frontal and temporal lobes and their role in multiscnsory vocal communication — L. Romanski & A. Ghazanfar; 26. Neuroediology of attention in primates — S. Shepherd & M. Platt; 27. Neuroediology of decision making — D. Lee; 28. Out of our minds — L. Barret & D. Rendall; 29. The comparative neuropsychology of tool use in primates with specific reference to chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys — W. Hopkins; 30. Evolution of an intellectual mond in the primate brain — A. Iriki, Y. Yamazaki & O. Sakura.
